A loud banging on the door pried Rob Rudnick from sleep's insistent embrace shortly before 7:00 the morning of March 10.

When
he opened the door to the Carrollton, Georgia warehouse that serves as
unofficial headquarters for Neal Horsley's gubernatorial campaign (and
sleeping quarters for volunteers), "the first thing I saw was a SWAT
shield and a bunch of machine guns pointing at me," Rudnick recalled to
Pro Libertate.